simX
Unofficial Mac Genius
*sigh*
This really gets me annoyed.
An article in the San Jose Mercury News talks all about how setting up a wireless network is very hard to do. Of course, guess which technology it conveniently ignores? AirPort, from Apple, of course.
This guy ended up spending $249 (if you buy a Pentium 4 laptop) for the setup fee for the wireless network. That fee jumps to $299 if you buy some other Gateway PC, and to $499 if you just want the wireless network.
I guess this guy deserves to part with that money if he can't look at all of the options.
Here's the URL to the article: http://www.bayarea.com/mld/mercurynews/business/technology/personal_technology/3363171.htm
The author's e-mail is sdiaz@sjmercury.com . I would suggest that everyone that has 5 minutes to spare should e-mail him enlightening him to the wonders of AirPort.
If you'd like, you can use my letter as a base. Here it is:
This really gets me annoyed.
An article in the San Jose Mercury News talks all about how setting up a wireless network is very hard to do. Of course, guess which technology it conveniently ignores? AirPort, from Apple, of course.
This guy ended up spending $249 (if you buy a Pentium 4 laptop) for the setup fee for the wireless network. That fee jumps to $299 if you buy some other Gateway PC, and to $499 if you just want the wireless network.
I guess this guy deserves to part with that money if he can't look at all of the options.
Here's the URL to the article: http://www.bayarea.com/mld/mercurynews/business/technology/personal_technology/3363171.htm
The author's e-mail is sdiaz@sjmercury.com . I would suggest that everyone that has 5 minutes to spare should e-mail him enlightening him to the wonders of AirPort.
If you'd like, you can use my letter as a base. Here it is:
Dear Mr. Diaz,
Your article about setting up a wireless network was very interesting. Why? Because when I installed my home network, setup was a snap, and I was up and running in less than 10 minutes.
Why? Because I used a Macintosh, and I used Airport.
Yet again, it seems that another article just ignores the company that makes computers easy to use. I am sorry to say that you have just helped support the myth that wireless networking is hard to do on a computer. The truth? It's hard to do on a Windows PC.
Apple's Airport networking hardware it's base station and it's wireless cards are very easy to set up. The cards can be installed on any Mac they ALL have built-in antennas and slots for the airport cards, so you don't have anything sticking out of the side of your computer. It's all seemless.
Setup is a snap. You simply boot up your Macintosh, and then, whether in Mac OS 9 or Mac OS X, you open the Airport Setup Assistant. It guides you through the steps, and all you need to know is the settings for your cable modem, DSL modem, or dial-up modem. You can feed the Airport connection through any internet connection including AOL.
All of this takes, at max, 15 minutes.
I'm sorry that you had all of that trouble setting up your wireless network. Of course, you could have avoided all that trouble had you wisely chosen a Macintosh for your computer.
Next time, why don't you look at ALL the choices for wireless networking, or whatever piece of personal technology you look at next. It pains me to think about all of the readers that have been misled by your article, when they could have easily set it up themselves with a Macintosh and with the money they saved from the installation, it would more than make up for the cost difference between a Mac and a PC.
Thank you for your time.
-- Simone Manganelli